Things to Know for the
First Exam
Format: The exam will consist of two parts: short
answer and
long answer. There will be 6 short answer questions of which
you pick 4. Answers should be anywhere from one to five sentences.
There will be 3 long answer questions, of which you pick 2. Answers
should be about 2 blue-book pages. The exam is scheduled for Friday July 7 at 11:30, our regular class
time.There will be a breif review in class on Thursday, and
on the discussion forum.
Some Terms
Deductive Arguments
Valid/Invalid
Sound
Inductive Arguments
Strong/Weak
Cogent
Possible Worlds
A Priori
A Posteriori
Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnibenevolence
Paradox of Omnipotence
Fallacy of Composition
Contingent
Necessary
The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)
Brute Facts
Argument by Analogy
Anselm's Definition of God
Reductio Ad Absurdum
Existence in the Mind
Existence in Reality
Quantitative vs. Qualitative Identity
Principles, Arguments,
and
Objections
The Cosmological
Argument 1--Aquinas'
Second Way or The Argument from Causation
Aquinas' argument for premise 3 (of The Second Way)
"Infinity is weird" objection
The Cosmological Argument 2--Aquinas' Third Way or The Argument from
Contingency
The Teleological Argument
Hume's Objections to the Teleological Argument
The Ontological Argument
Guanilo's Perfect Island Objection
Kant's Objection: Existence is not a Predicate
Inconceivability Objection (against GCB)
Existence in the Mind and Criterion of Identity
"Greater than"? WTF?
Page Last Updated: July
6, 2006